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Anja K. Leist, PhD, FGSA (she/her/hers)

Prof. Dr.
University of Luxembourg
Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

Anja Leist is Associate Professor in Public Health and Ageing and Vice-Head of the Institute for Research on Socio-Economic Inequality at the University of Luxembourg. She is Special Adviser to the rectorate on the topic ‘Research Assessment’. Her research focuses on cognitive ageing and dementia from a social and behavioural risk reduction perspective and is funded, among others, by the European Research Council (CRISP, grant agreement no. 803239). Specifically, together with her team, Anja identified relevant contextual-level influences on cognitive ageing and dementia related to inequalities in educational opportunity, socioeconomic conditions, and sex/gender. Her research has been published in top multidisciplinary and leading disciplinary journals such as Science Advances, Aging Research Reviews, Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences, Gerontology, and American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Another research project MCI-BIOME, funded by the University of Luxembourg’s Institute for Advanced Studies, investigates the relationships between sociodemographic and modifiable risk factors for dementia, the gut microbiome, and Mild Cognitive Impairment. Anja is elected Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and co-founder of the non-profit organisation World Young Leaders in Dementia a.s.b.l. (WYLD) network that facilitates careers of young professionals in dementia globally. She represents WYLD on the World Dementia Council, serves on several Scientific Advisory Boards, for instance of the national dementia prevention programme pdp, and regularly reviews for journals and funders.

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